Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of the Interior, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, who "not only moves forward with vigor, but does it in a manner that is not offensive...
Salgueiro's theme this year is the tale of Dom João Fernandes de Oliveira, a Portuguese nobleman who arrived in Brazil in 1761 with a royal deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
...good idea, right after World War II, for those Americans for whom a house had always been a dream house. The shell home came along, providing an inexpensive (average cost: $3,000), wall-to-wall do-it-yourself kit that was finished on the outside but left the interior up to the buyer. The shell house industry that started out so promisingly has just gone through one of the crudest shakeouts in business history, and is emerging a vastly smaller but much stronger part of the nation's $25.6 billion housing business...
...Today's shell home buyer who has the cash can pay as little as $1,395 for a pure shell or as much as $7,800 for a semi-finished home (he pays some 70% more on the installment plan), can also buy a kit to finish the interior himself. Both Walter and DeLoach are moving toward more "livable" homes that are finished enough to qualify for FHA loans, but shells are still their main business. "We're selling to the bean and potato boy," says DeLoach, "and he's got a yard full of children. These...
Died. Oskar Helmer, 75, Austrian patriot and former Interior Minister (from 1945 to 1959) a courageous pro-Western Socialist who firmly purged the police and security forces of Communist agents during the post-World War II occupation, thereby helping to avert a Czechoslovakia-style Red takeover of the country; of cancer; in Vienna...